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• Video: Frank Schaeffer and the fears of fundamentalism

  
  Life Without Faith — Authority: 131
  As a follow-up to my Weekly Rant: Frank Schaeffer and New Atheist Fundamentalists , I present an interview Laura Flanders did with Schaeffer for GRITtv. From the  web description : Schaeffer has a new book now, Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism) , and in it he takes on ...
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• The Blind Watchmaker - Documentary

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 424
  An excellent documentary on Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker .
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• Dawkins vs. Tyson

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 152
  I had absolutely no idea that Richard Dawkins was this cool.
  23 hours ago

• Michael Ruse, an Atheist, on Why He Hasn’t Signed Up with the New Atheists (or Confidence Atheists)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Daniel Dennett. PZ Myers. Richard Dawkins. Jerry Coyne. Philosopher Michael Ruse is an atheist too. But don’t sign him up with the above confidence atheists. Why? Here’s one reason that he gave in a recent essay in the UK’s Guardian: [H]ow dare we be so condescending? I don’t have faith. I really ...
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• Scientists win place for evolution in primary schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists. The schools minister, Diana Johnson, has confirmed the plans will be included in a blueprint for a new curriculum to be published in the next few weeks. It follows a letter signed by ...
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• The Case for Karen Armstrong

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  If you open Karen Armstrongs new book, The Case for God , expecting to find a list of mysterious cures, scientific curiosities, or certified miracles all pointing toward the physical presence of a divine influence in the world, you will be sorely disappointed.  Armstrong has no interest in, and is in fact completely ...
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• Quickhit: Michael Shermer video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 135
  This video was published by the Richard Dawkins Foundation in June this year. The original kit was published as Chapter 12: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection in Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (ISBN 0-394-53512-X / ISBN 0-345-40946-9). This site from the Australian ...
  3 days ago

• Transcript of the Interview of Richard Dawkins By Ben Stein in the Film Expelled

  
  Darwinian Fundamentalism — Authority: 108
  This is a partial text of the interview of Richard Dawkins by Ben Stein in the film Expelled. This is the key section in which Richard Dawkins acknowledges that it is possible to find evidence of design in biology, and that it could have been seeded here by a "higher intelligence" from elsewhere in the ...
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• Schism in Atheism? Who believes less?

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  Dawkins et al bring us into disrepute. There’s a schism alright, and I seem to find myself on the unfashionable side of it - Michael Ruse The question: Is there an atheist schism? As a professional philosopher my first question naturally is: “What or who is an atheist?” If you mean someone who absolutely and ...
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• Why Evolution Is True

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 492
  Here’s another great video from the recent AAI Convention. It’s a presentation by Jerry Coyne based on his recently published book “Why Evolution Is True .” I haven’t read it yet but it has had great reviews. Jerry describes it as complimentary to Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth . ...
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• Will E.T. Look Like Us?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 574
  Michael Shermer asks an imponderable question in Scientific American Magazine : What are the odds that intelligent, technically advanced aliens would look anything like the ones in films, with an emaciated torso and limbs, spindly fingers and a bulbous, bald head with large, almond-shaped eyes? What are the odds ...
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• Theologian Richard Dawkins in New Zealand for 2010 International Arts Festival

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 528
  Ok, I was just playing with the ‘theologian’ title there. But in recent years, Richard Dawkins has certainly been a big bad kitty running amok in the theological rooster coop. So he may be more deserving of the title than the dull defenders of dogma. The news is that Richard Dawkins will be winging his way to ...
  5 days ago

• Life’s Value

  
  An Apostate's Chapel — Authority: 414
  I finally started reading The Greatest Show on Earth last week. As I read the chapter on embryology a couple of nights ago, I couldn’t help marveling at how amazing life is in all its forms. Religionists often claim that their views enhance the value of life, particularly human life, because all of it has been ...
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• Dawkins in your ear

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 129
  The God Delusionby Richard Dawkins; narrated by Lalla Ward and the authorSo in my quest to read a variety of books about spirituality, God, and more, I just finished listening to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.  Dawkins wields some strong rhetorical arguments about religious belief.  A few thoughts:He’s at ...
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• Richard Dawkins in Wellington next March

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 492
  Auckland got Richard Dawkins by video this year when he announced the winner of the inaugural Royal Society NZ science Book of the Year award. Next March Wellington will get him in person. Dawkins will be speaking during the Writers and Readers Week at the NZ International Arts Festival. Details (evening of ...
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• Stephen Maturin would enjoy this

  
  What Does The Prayer Really Say? — Authority: 674
  Is this like something William Mowett would have come up with? From the Laudator : Max Beerbohm on Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman:     How compare either of these grim two?       Each has an equal knack,     Hardy supplies the pill that’s blue ,       Housman the draught that’s black . ...
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• Featured Podcast: Author David Berlinski reviews Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth

  
  Truthbomb Apologetics — Authority: 416
  In the most recent ID the Future Podcast , author and skeptic David Berlinski shares his thoughts on Richard Dawkins latest book The Greatest Show on Earth. Berlinski has also recently released The Deniable Darwin and Other Essays . Check out the podcast here . Courage and Godspeed, Chad
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• Discovery Institute’s Berlinski Praises Richard Dawkins

  
  Christian News New Zealand — Authority: 118
  Click to play the MP3:
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• Disrepute???

  
  Thinkers' Podium — Authority: 416
  I’d say it never gets old, but it does. Michael Ruse is back writing ‘ Dawkins et al bring us into disrepute ‘, stirring up those terrible “new atheists” who claim that all religion is necessarily evil and that science is the only way of knowing things! Those “New Atheists” that bring science and the ...
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• Moral panic? What moral panic?

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 511
  Being of a libertarian cast of mind, I’ve often been of the view that all the campaigns about smoking, drugs and obesity are more than a little overdone. It’s not that I think these things are unhealthy — they plainly are. It’s more that I suspect the moral panic is made worse not because we are genuinely ...
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